2015-2016 E-Resources

• Create a folder, invite your kids to it, and see their work. Include any type of file that you would like to use.
• Only those students/teachers that share folder can access the documents
• Ex. Recently, 5th Grade students at one school created a class shared map of the 11 Civil War battles in the standard by pairs of students researching 5 facts of each before adding a placemarker with their information. They viewed each others’ placemarkers to read the information.

• Create assignments, ask students questions, read their responses, allow them to have class discussion without a sound.
• Only your students are in your Google Classroom
• Works in all content areas.
• Ex. Recently, a 4th grade math teacher gave her students link to an interactive math tool on primes and composites, then uses the “Ask a Question” feature to connect their observations and learning about the 2 kinds of numbers.

• Take a PowerPoint that students just watch and give them the ability to write on it through the web. (No PPTs were harmed in the making of a NearPod presentation.)
• Add text response questions directly to the slides
• Give them the ability to highlight, underline, and draw directly on the slides
• Collect their answers online and in real time.
• Ex. A 3rd grade teacher used her PPT about types of reference sources to show not only print, but digital versions while allowing students to make notes directly on the slides and circle key features of each. They ended with a multiple choice quiz embedded in the NearPod presentation. Afterwards, she could see all students work and responses gathered during the lesson.

• Teachers create a class notebook that they add their students’ Office 365 email address to it.
• Teachers and Students share a Collaborative area to add content and work together.
• Teachers can share content in the Content tab that students can access, but not change.
• Students have an individual section that only they and their teacher can see.
• Ex. Recently, at 5th grade teacher created a OneNote Class Notebook to work with her students. She added a writing resource to the Content tab and students copied the piece for the day to their own tab and wrote. She could see their work without having to take a stack of papers home and could leave comments for them privately to help improve their responses.

• Teachers use a class blog to post their content, questions, and links.
• Students login and read, do, and respond to the teacher’s work.
• The Kidblog is private to only kids in that class.
• The teacher can post work, she approves, publicly for parents and larger audience.
• Ex. A 3rd Grade teacher who posted a short article on Causes of Population Change, then had students click links in the post to more on “extinct”, “endangered”, “threatened”, and “thriving”. Students then replied to her post to show learning.

• Teachers post text to their account and insert questions.
• Students login and read the article. The article shows only the part before each question so students stay focused.
• Responses are captured for teacher review.
• Ex. Recently, a 4th Grade teacher added an article to her ActivelyLearn documents and assigned it to the students. It’s focus was to compare and contrast 1st person and 3rd person accounts of a story.

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2014-2015 E-Resources

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Address	http://www.discoveryeducation.com/	http://kidblog.org/home/
Description	The newest addition to the Clarksville-Montgomery County e-resource collection, Discovery Streaming. You can implement more than 4,000 digital videos and 40,000 content-specific segments covering every core subject. Our district-wide subscription also includes foreign-language video content and more than 1,000 closed-captioned titles.	Kidblog offers a free, safe online environment for your class to publish, read, and revise writing.
Uses
More Info	https://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Discovery	https://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Writing-+Stimulus+%26+Response

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Address	https://www.clarity-innovations.com/apps	Logger Pro 3	https://www.frontrowed.com/
Description	Links to Math Virtual Manipulative sets that are available on the web and as free iPad apps. Number Frames Math Vocabulary Cards Number Line Number Pieces (Base 10 pieces) Geoboard Number Rack (Digital abacus)	Upgrade for Math and Science instruction that allows studentto interpret data either from Vernier Probes or from their own collection.	Create a class in this FREE, online math instruction resource. Students login to take a diagnostic for each Common Core math domain and then begin work at their level as soon as the assessment is complete.
Uses		Additionally, students can analyze data in pictures and video clips within this software available on elementary desktops and laptops	Track student progress Aligned to Common Core Video tutorials for all work Reads text to students so focus is on Math Built-in virtual manipulatives Standards can be assigned by teacher as well
More Info	http://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Using+ Math+Manipulatives+Effectively	http://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/VERNIER+PROBES+ TRAINING+FOR+ELEMENTARY+SCIENCE+%26+MATH+TEACHERS

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Address	http://www.socrative.com/	https://getkahoot.com/	http://www.todaysmeet.com
Description	Socrative is a web based student response system that functions without student response devices. Students have a choice of input options such as a desktop computer, laptop computer, iPad, or smart phone.	Game show style of review/student response capture. Motivate students to review/share their understanding by creating your own quizzes or access shared quizzes. Students use computers, tablets, or iPads to respond. Quick, correct responses receive more points. Points leaders shown at the end of every round of questions.	Todays Meet is a microblogging backchannel website that encourages computer to computer discussion. Teachers create a microblogging "chat room", then invites students to join with a simple website link. Students visit the link and participating in a classroom
Uses			Spice up close reading by posting responses and evaluating others' responses Access prior knowledge to adjust instruction During a Project or Challenge allow students to post and answer questions Short answer assessment Reviewing and writing a recommendation for an online article from Tween Tribune During a movie or presentation post an aa-ha! moment or que
More Info.	https://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Engaging+ Student+Response		https://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Engaging+ Student+Response

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